page_title: Star 266
section_title: Usage
hierarchical_section_title: Star 266 / Usage
caption_attribution_description: English: Polish fire engine Star 266, of the Voluntary Fire Brigade in ZbychowoPolski: Samochód pożarniczy Star 266. Zdjęcie wykonane ok. 2003 r. na terenie remizy OSP w Zbychowie
context_page_description: The Star 266 is a Polish 6x6 truck designed for transport of cargo and personnel. Created by Starachowice-based FSC Star, it was the basic transport truck used by the Polish Army, it was also available to civilian market. A successor to a highly successful Star 660 series of trucks, the Star 266 shared many components with earlier models, including Star 200 and Star 244 multi-purpose medium-capacity trucks.
  The truck could transport up to 3500 kilograms cross-country and up to 5000 kg on paved roads, it could also tow trailers of up to 4000 kg. As a truck designed primarily with military service in mind, it can ford rivers and mud of between 120 and 180 centimetres of depth. It was initially equipped with a 6-cylinder S359 diesel engine.
  The design works started in 1968. The following year the first prototypes were ready. Between 1970 and 1973 the vehicle was being prepared to enter serial production which it did in 1973. It remained in production until 2000, when it was replaced with Star 1466. It was being produced for 27 years.
context_section_description: Star 266 was first all adopted as a basic military tactical truck, but was also used as civilian truck, especially for services needing high mobility, like a mobile workshop for energetics. It also served as a basis for several civilian vehicles including fire engines and truck-mounted cranes. Fire Engines and Energetic Services still use this Truck because of its durability and ease of repairs in poor weather and terrain conditions.
  Two specially modified Star 266 trucks took part in the 1988 Dakar Rally. One crew included Tomasz Sikora and Jerzy Franek, second crew consisted of Jerzy Mazur and Julian Obornicki. Both trucks reached the finish line in Senegal but they went over the delay limit and as such they were disqualified. One of the trucks is currently in Muzeum Przyrody i Techniki (Nature and Technology Museum) in Starachowice, home town of the truck.
  Star 266 is a basic medium-capacity transport vehicle of the Polish Armed Forces and as such is used for a number of different tasks. Polish Army also uses the modernized variant of Star 266 known as Star 266M. Star 266 also served as basis for a number of different vehicles including CD-5 tanker trucks which are used for transport of liquid fuel by supply platoons of tank and mechanized battalions, GD-2 smokescreen generation vehicles, truck-mounted cranes, excavators, WUS-3 and IRS special vehicles used for disinfection and chemical recon, deactivation and decontamination of vehicles, terrain, equipment and buildings, ADK-11 command vehicles as well as Star-266 AP-64 and Star-266 BP-64 special transport vehicles used for transporting the elements of the PP-64 Wstęga pontoon bridge.
caption: Fire Engine used by Volunteer Fire Brigade. Somewhere in the 70's or 80's  Modernised Star 228M during Wroclaw flood of 2010
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